<div dir="ltr">Do some contests. It's not unusual to get 600+ in a weekend.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Mar 29, 2020 at 12:14 PM Wayne Michael <<a href="mailto:wrmichael@hotmail.com">wrmichael@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal">That is very impressive. I am not sure how you do it. </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I use every spare moment on the air making contacts and I only managed to get 10,013 contacts in 2019.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Most of mine are FT8, none of them “ROBOT” contacts. For some reason believe we use robots in that mode. I have som FT4, many SSB and maybe 2 CW. This year I am on 70 contacts in CW but I don’t know the other counts. Likely not as
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<p class="MsoNormal">I have an addiction to moving up the list on QRZ most confirmed QSO’s list… I am sitting at about 385/384 usually.. hard to move up from here.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks for comparing notes. It is good to know I am not the only addict.
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<p class="MsoNormal">de ac9hp</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;padding:0in"><b>From: </b><a href="mailto:davids@mediamachine.com" target="_blank">David Spoelstra</a><br>
<b>Sent: </b>Sunday, March 29, 2020 11:53 AM<br>
<b>To: </b><a href="mailto:ircnews@indyradioclub.org" target="_blank">IRC News</a><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: [IRCNews] The sun isn't helping us during our "vacation"</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">LOL, no, I'm not a member. I did check my log since you were surprised how many QSOs I made. Last year I made 12,921 contacts. That's 248/week for 52 weeks straight.
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<p class="MsoNormal">No, I'm not an SKCC member. Sorry.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Sun, Mar 29, 2020 at 11:12 AM Wayne Michael <<a href="mailto:wrmichael@hotmail.com" target="_blank">wrmichael@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Radio addicts anonymous. <u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt">Are you a skcc member? If so I need your # in my log. <u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt">On Mar 29, 2020, at 10:58 AM, David Spoelstra <<a href="mailto:davids@mediamachine.com" target="_blank">davids@mediamachine.com</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">It's really not that hard when you're on the air 12+ hours a day. I'm doing SSB, CW, FT8, FT4, SSTV, and a few RTTY.
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<p class="MsoNormal">What's the RAA?<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Sun, Mar 29, 2020 at 10:37 AM Wayne Michael <<a href="mailto:wrmichael@hotmail.com" target="_blank">wrmichael@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">It has been a long time since I have seen anything close to that.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Want to join me at the next RAA meeting?
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<b>Sent: </b>Sunday, March 29, 2020 10:36 AM<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Oh, the low sunspots hasn't kept me off the bands. Last week I made 673 QSOs without a contest going! I just need 10m and 12m to open to finish my 9BWAS and 8BDXCC.
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Sun, Mar 29, 2020 at 10:22 AM Mel Crichton <<a href="mailto:kj9c@att.net" target="_blank">kj9c@att.net</a>> wrote:</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt">Forty meters has been great to Europe, and that's from here in Montana... I even worked DX on 40 SSB this weekend....</span></p>
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Eighty and 75 meters are still good, although 160 is getting tough from here.... but should still be good in Indiana</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt">And 20 meters is about as good as always....</span></p>
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